NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Henrik Lundqvist and Alain Vigneault seemed satisfied — to an extent- with the four-game suspension handed down to Dallas forward Cody Eakin after Eakin blasted the goalie in the Rangers win on Thursday.

“You need to see a lot of different hits to get a good read on how many games he should get,” Lundqvist said before returning for Saturday night’s game against the Predators after Friday’s ruling by the NHL’s Department of Player Safety. “That’s why you have that committee, to get it right. All I can say is it was not a good hit, obviously. I’ll leave it up to them.”

And he said that other than some slight stiffness in the shoulder and neck, he felt OK — a fortunate outcome given the violence of the hit. And the goalie said it was time to “move on.”

“There’s too much hockey to get stuck on stuff like that,” Lundqvist said. “I’m just happy I got out of it without any bad consequences. I didn’t see him coming at all. It’s shocking when you get hit like that. You have to regroup a little bit.”

It was the suddenness of the hit, as well as the fact that plays like that are so uncommon now, that played a part in a lack of retribution by the Rangers.

“I think it’s important for a team to stick up for one another in certain situations,” Vigneault said. “I think that one there caught everyone by surprise. … You don’t see that in today’s hockey anymore like you did there and I think it just caught everybody by surprise.”

Still, the lack of retribution was a far cry from the NHL of the not-too-distant past.

“There was a time when a hit like that, probably both benches would have cleared and players would have [done] what they had to do,” Vigneault said.